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I don't know who needs to hear this today, but WRITE THE NEXT BOOK. Let the rejection fuel you and your belief in what you're meant to do keep driving you forward. You're not alone. As many as it takes. #WritingCommunity #writers #writerscommunity #amquerying #amwriting #goals
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“Writing is making sense of life.” —Nadine Gordimer buff.ly/2RSyisZ
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Crime can be formulaic.
When it comes to some kinds of #storytelling, there's a formula in place. Crime, for instance, has the "whodunit" or "howdunit." A formulaic #story can at first glance sound boring, but the magic is within playing with the beats.
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Nothing calms me down quite like reading a good book and forgetting all about my problems while I get lost in a new world.
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One of the many reasons why I think reading is so great is because when I read it’s like my problems fade away for a minute and I get to immerse my mind in a completely different world.
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“Every time I sit down to write, I think, Will I find someone at the crossroads? And sometimes I do, and I feel my soul. When I don’t, I’m disappointed.” —Jamaica Kincaid buff.ly/44XMykE
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“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins.”
This week, to celebrate James Baldwin’s life and legacy on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. buff.ly/3dC4FD5
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“I think that writing is very difficult, but so is any job carefully executed.” —Gabriel García Márquez buff.ly/3jbDHWf
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“The reading of great books, the contemplation of great art, is somehow very good for one.” —Iris Murdoch buff.ly/3NS7UtW
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Daily #writingQ for the #WritingCommunity
Is it important to you in a story you're reading or watching that you like the characters?
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“As a writer, I also see sentence-making as the ultimate test of authorial ego. As soon as a sentence calls attention to itself, demonstrates how clever the author is, how astute, how talented, I know something’s gone wrong.” —Alice McDermott buff.ly/3PS4gll
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“There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers.” —Fran Lebowitz buff.ly/3uTKL3Z
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“You know I am really stupid. For years I have looked for the perfect pencil. I have found very good ones but never the perfect one. And all the time it was not the pencils but me.” —John Steinbeck buff.ly/3HpqLYq
